Boston University

During this year’s surprisingly hot and humid May, thousands of fresh-faced 22-year-olds poured out of some of the city’s oldest and most well-respected educational institutions and into the warm embrace of thirty years of paying off student loans responsibility and adulthood.

And what was the next step they took on the way toward success? Into an Uber, of course.More →

Just sharing some audio I recorded yesterday at a talk Peter Thiel gave at Boston University’s School of Management; I moderated the audience Q&A afterward, which was a lot of fun. Thiel is on the road with co-author Blake Masters promoting his new book, Zero to One. I teased him a bit that his only tweet so far is a plug for the book… and his quick answer was that he went from zero to one tweets.More →

Two April days, separated by a decade. Two college sophomores walk into the Charles Square complex in Cambridge to meet with prospective investors. They’ve both built apps to help students communicate with friends on campus, and attracted a small community of users.More →

On April 11 to April 12, Boston University’s student-run PR agency, PRLab, teamed up with BU’s student-run ad agency, AdLab, to host the second PRoBono event. Other on-campus organizations joined the event as well including Ad Club, BU’s Public Relations Student Society of America, the COMmunicator (the official newsletter of the Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, run entirely by students), and Open Web (an on-campus web development group devoted to creating websites for nonprofit organizations).More →

My favorite sporting event of the year is in Boston this weekend: the FIRST Robotics Competition Regional Championship. Matches began yesterday afternoon, and they run through Saturday at Boston University’s Agannis Arena. They also stream live online.More →